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Side-scan sonar (SSS) is a lightweight acoustic sensor that is frequently deployed on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to provide high-resolution seafloor images. However, using side-scan images to perform simultaneous localization and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Jun Zhang , Yiping Xie , Li Ling , John Folkesson

Medical images like CT and MRI provide detailed information about the internal structure of the body, and identifying key anatomical structures from these images plays a crucial role in clinical workflows. Current methods treat it as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Xiaoyu Bai , Yong Xia

Feature matching is a crucial technique in computer vision. A unified perspective for this task is to treat it as a searching problem, aiming at an efficient search strategy to narrow the search space to point matches between images. One of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yesheng Zhang , Xu Zhao

We present a method for highly efficient landmark detection that combines deep convolutional neural networks with well established model-based fitting algorithms. Motivated by established model-based fitting methods such as active shapes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Marcin Kopaczka , Justus Schock , Dorit Merhof

Marking anatomical landmarks in cephalometric radiography is a critical operation in cephalometric analysis. Automatically and accurately locating these landmarks is a challenging issue because different landmarks require different levels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Runnan Chen , Yuexin Ma , Nenglun Chen , Daniel Lee , Wenping Wang

Visual Deformation Measurement (VDM) aims to recover dense deformation fields by tracking surface motion from camera observations. Traditional image-based methods rely on minimal inter-frame motion to constrain the correspondence search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yuliang Wu , Wei Zhai , Yuxin Cui , Tiesong Zhao , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

Highly automated driving functions currently often rely on a-priori knowledge from maps for planning and prediction in complex scenarios like cities. This makes map-relative localization an essential skill. In this paper, we address the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Stefan Jürgens , Niklas Koch , Marc-Michael Meinecke

In dermoscopic images, which allow visualization of surface skin structures not visible to the naked eye, lesion shape offers vital insights into skin diseases. In clinically practiced methods, asymmetric lesion shape is one of the criteria…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 M. A. Rasel , Sameem Abdul Kareem , Zhenli Kwan , Nik Aimee Azizah Faheem , Winn Hui Han , Rebecca Kai Jan Choong , Shin Shen Yong , Unaizah Obaidellah

Automatic estimation of skinning transformations is a popular way to deform a single reference shape into a new pose by providing a small number of control parameters. We generalize this approach by efficiently enabling the use of multiple…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Alon Shtern , Matan Sela , Ron Kimmel

Active learning is a machine learning paradigm that aims to improve the performance of a model by strategically selecting and querying unlabeled data. One effective selection strategy is to base it on the model's predictive uncertainty,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Seong Jin Cho , Gwangsu Kim , Junghyun Lee , Jinwoo Shin , Chang D. Yoo

This work focuses on a parameter-free joint piecewise smooth image denoising and contour detection. Formulated as the minimization of a discrete Mumford-Shah functional and estimated via a theoretically grounded alternating minimization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-01 Charles-Gérard Lucas , Barbara Pascal , Nelly Pustelnik , Patrice Abry

We present WSSAMNet, a weakly supervised method for medical image registration. Ours is a two step method, with the first step being the computation of segmentation masks of the fixed and moving volumes. These masks are then used to attend…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Sahar Almahfouz Nasser , Nikhil Cherian Kurian , Saqib Shamsi , Mohit Meena , Amit Sethi

This paper addresses the challenge of localization of anatomical landmarks in knee X-ray images at different stages of osteoarthritis (OA). Landmark localization can be viewed as regression problem, where the landmark position is directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Aleksei Tiulpin , Iaroslav Melekhov , Simo Saarakkala

Visual localization is a key technique to a variety of applications, e.g., autonomous driving, AR/VR, and robotics. For these real applications, both efficiency and accuracy are important especially on edge devices with limited computing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Fei Xue , Ignas Budvytis , Roberto Cipolla

Smile veracity classification is a task of interpreting social interactions. Broadly, it distinguishes between spontaneous and posed smiles. Previous approaches used hand-engineered features from facial landmarks or considered raw smile…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Md. Tahrim Faroque , Yan Yang , Md Zakir Hossain , Sheikh Motahar Naim , Nabeel Mohammed , Shafin Rahman

Active visual SLAM finds a wide array of applications in GNSS-Denied sub-terrain environments and outdoor environments for ground robots. To achieve robust localization and mapping accuracy, it is imperative to incorporate the perception…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Suchetan Saravanan , Corentin Chauffaut , Caroline Chanel , Damien Vivet

Mammography images are widely used to detect non-palpable breast lesions or nodules, preventing cancer and providing the opportunity to plan interventions when necessary. The identification of some structures of interest is essential to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Cesar A. Sierra-Franco , Jan Hurtado , Victor de A. Thomaz , Leonardo C. da Cruz , Santiago V. Silva , Alberto B. Raposo

Wave equation techniques have been an integral part of geophysical imaging workflows to investigate the Earth's subsurface. Least-squares reverse time migration (LSRTM) is a linearized inversion problem that iteratively minimizes a misfit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Janaki Vamaraju , Jeremy Vila , Mauricio Araya-Polo , Debanjan Datta , Mohamed Sidahmed , Mrinal Sen

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) aims to bypass the need for laborious pixel-level annotation by using only image-level annotation. Most existing methods rely on Class Activation Maps (CAM) to derive pixel-level pseudo-labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Tianle Chen , Zheda Mai , Ruiwen Li , Wei-lun Chao

We present a framework for shape matching in computational anatomy allowing users control of the degree to which the matching is diffeomorphic. This control is given as a function defined over the image and parameterises the template…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-23 Andreas Bock , Alexis Arnaudon , Colin Cotter